Plant Technical Manager

Scope of Position

The Plant Technical Manager leads the plant's maintenance, technical, and continuous staff to derive maximum value from our equipment by improving machine safety, product quality, and reliability. The Technical Manager is responsible for fostering a high-performance, safety-minded culture and for developing diverse teams with varied backgrounds and skill sets. The Technical Manager uses their extensive experience and a solid grounding in sound engineering fundamentals to provide technical guidance and decision-making support to their teams when required.

Responsibilities

• Understands, follows, and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP, and Company policies, procedures, and recognized practices.
• Collaborate with operations to ensure manufacturing methods, processes, and performance are in compliance and managed through a continuous improvement process.
• Maintains overall responsibility for capital execution, process improvement, and accountability for Maintenance.
• Provides critical technical leadership for major capital projects and ensures production teams have the solutions needed to drive safety, quality, and performance plans.
• In collaboration with the quality manager, develops, leads, and implements a plant quality assurance plan to reduce the cost of poor quality (COPQ) by conducting gap analysis, identifying the strategy and tactics to bridge the gap using tools such as statistical process control (SPC), Pareto diagrams, etc.
• Oversees efficient and effective design and execution efforts for plant capital and expense projects, meeting schedule and cost targets.
• Drives continuous improvement efforts within current process technologies and in the development and implementation of new technologies.
• Maintains overall accountability for management of external technical relationships with contractors and equipment vendors.
• Provides site leadership to achieve maximization/optimization of capital assets and site utilization, as well as lead safety initiatives in technical areas.
• Develop and support strategies that integrate vertical start-up (VSU), CI, and Zero Loss Culture methodologies into the Master Plan.
• Provide site leadership for technical solutions to operational problems, including systems optimization, debottlenecking, and troubleshooting
• Accountable for the strategy, design, and implementation of control systems and manufacturing information systems
• Coach and develop the Maintenance and Facilities team to integrate Maintenance into Zero Loss Culture.
• Provide strategy and support for maintenance programs, development of tools and resources, personnel selection, training, and development.
• Integrate Maintenance into the strategy for the broader technical community at the plant.
• Lead and support plant continuous improvement initiatives.

Core Proficiencies and Skills

Plant technical managers must interact with other functional managers, employees, vendors, and customers. Therefore, the following skills and proficiencies are also essential for the position:

• Ability to maintain regular, predictable, and punctual attendance.
• Computer usage and typing skills are essential.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, including the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
• Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service.
• Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within the parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices.
• Collaborates well with others: proactively contributes to group objectives; volunteers to help others.
• Ability to identify potential business solutions involving a broad scope of thinking across businesses and functions to develop new innovations

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in engineering or technical field and/or related operations experience; or equivalent combination of education and related operations experience is highly preferred.
• A minimum of fifteen years' experience in an operations supervisory or management role in a manufacturing environment with demonstrated leadership skills strongly preferred.
• Strong track record of engineering aptitude, ability to apply engineering principles, and problem-solving.
• Strong leadership skills, including experience leading others in projects or programs, and the ability to successfully interact with individuals representing other areas or interests, and the ability to manage team leaders & mechanics
• Understanding and experience interacting with multiple business functions, including Quality Control, Purchasing, Distribution, Human Resources, Finance, and especially Operations

Supervisory Duties

Direct reports may include the CI managers, Maintenance manager, Maintenance Supervisors, and others as assigned.